August 29, 2008, Friday

To the Editor: I am disappointed that a June 11 editorial uncritically quoted the misleading assertion by the United States Commission on Civil Rights that Florida's black voters ''were nearly 10 times more likely than white voters to have their...

Mike Stedem, a car dealer and community leader in central Florida, was an afterthought as a Democratic Congressional candidate after bigger names turned the party down. But the surprisingly strong run here by Mr. Stedem, 50, in the 12th District...

Divided mainly along party lines, the House of Representatives debated at length today whether religious liberty or civil rights should take precedence when the two principles come into conflict. Religion, which the Republicans favored, came out...

Following are excerpts from the presentations today by the House managers in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton. (Today's excerpts were recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency.) F. James Sensenbrenner...

To the Editor: Representative Charles T. Canady, one of the House managers, says he opposes dismissal of the articles of impeachment (front page, Jan. 26). Yet many trials end as a result of a motion to dismiss when it is clear that the underlying...

Summarizing the Republican case against President Clinton in a speech evoking the shades of heroes past, Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois said this afternoon that the Presidency could be ''permanently damaged'' if the Senate failed to remove...

For months, members of Congress have taken to quoting famous historians to back up their own views on the impeachment of President Clinton. Twice yesterday, for example, House Republicans, Steve Buyer of Indiana and Charles T. Canady of Florida,...

Following are excerpts from the presentation today by Representative Charles T. Canady, Republican of Florida, in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton, as recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency: The...

January 17, 1999, Sunday

All 13 are lawyers, with legal degrees from universities as diverse as Yale and Brigham Young. More than half have worked as prosecutors, in cases involving people from street punks to soldiers, militia members to elected officials. But despite...